Do you take sex seriously?

(Q) said:
Totally agree. I found that one needs to practice singing more than they need to practice their instrument. With the instrument, the muscle memory comes back quickly but the vocals need a couple of weeks of daily one hour practice to come back. Its a pain in the ass.
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Recording- and performance-wise I've only ever done "bad" singing--by which I mean ranging from Dylan-esque to speaking/ranting style, not out of key. Singing well just takes too much work, and I'm much happier to focus mostly on instruments and singing badly. But the other thing about singing well is that you're not going to be able to sing in the same at, say, 50 as you did at 20. Your range is gonna change along with various other attributes and you're going to have to constantly adapt. Nothing wrong with that, but with instruments, barring injuries or conditions like carpal tunnel, your capabilities don't change as much over time.
 
parmalee said:
Recording- and performance-wise I've only ever done "bad" singing--by which I mean ranging from Dylan-esque to speaking/ranting style, not out of key. Singing well just takes too much work, and I'm much happier to focus mostly on instruments and singing badly. But the other thing about singing well is that you're not going to be able to sing in the same at, say, 50 as you did at 20. Your range is gonna change along with various other attributes and you're going to have to constantly adapt. Nothing wrong with that, but with instruments, barring injuries or conditions like carpal tunnel, your capabilities don't change as much over time.
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Hmmm real life i suppose.
 
parmalee said:
Nothing wrong with that, but with instruments, barring injuries or conditions like carpal tunnel, your capabilities don't change as much over time.
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Yep. With a bit more time, have actually gotten a little better on keyboards. I guess jazz god Brubeck is a good example of losing dexterity in his hands (car accident, iirc) and then adjusting and refining his new piano style and creating something better.
 
parmalee said:
Recording- and performance-wise I've only ever done "bad" singing--by which I mean ranging from Dylan-esque to speaking/ranting style, not out of key. Singing well just takes too much work, and I'm much happier to focus mostly on instruments and singing badly.
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Totally, singing is a lot of work. Everyone in the band should sing though, good harmonies are a huge part of the experience for the audience.
 
parmalee said:
Marillion were always a rather cheesy bunch, but they had some moments in their early days with their Gabriel-era Genesis obsession combined with '80s guitar pedals and hideous drum processing. "Garden Party" is full of double entendre and puns re: Cambridge poshness and sexytime stuff, half of which probably necessitates a glossary for non-English sorts:

Garden Party held today, invites call the debs to play,
Social climbers polish ladders, wayward sons again have fathers,
Edgy eggs and queing cumbers, rudely wakened from their slumber,
Time has come again for slaughter on the lawns by still Cam waters
Champagne corks are firing at the sun again
Swooping swallows chased by violins again
Straafed by Strauss they sulk in crumbling eaves again
Oh God not again, not again
Apertifs consumed en masse display their owners on the grass
Couples loiter in the cloisters, social leeches quoting Chaucer
Doctor's son a parson's daughter where why not and should they oughta
Please don't lie on the grass, unless accompanied by a fellow,
(May I be so bold as to suggest Othello)
Punting on the Cam is jolly fun they say
Beagling on the downs Oh please come they say
Rugger is the tops a game for men they say
Thank God they say
I'm punting, I'm beagling, I'm wining, reclining, I'm rucking, I'm fucking
So welcome, it's a party
Angie chalks another blue, mother smiles she did it too
Chitters chat and gossips lash
Posers pose pressmen flash, flash, flash
Smiles polluted with false charm, locking onto Royal arms,
Society columns now ensured, return to mingle with the crowds
Oh what a crowd
Punting on the Cam, oh please do come they say
Beagling on the downs, oh please so come they say
Garden party held today they say
Oh please do come, oh please do come, they say
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Punting on the Cam with Romana II

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My mate dragged me to see Fish at the students Union a few years ago.
I never liked Marillion, I just thought they were 1980s pop.
The gig was ok but I didn't know any of the music so I was a bit lost.
I like that track though, sounds a bit like "Duke" Genesis
 
TheVat said:
First Rule of SFC Club:

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Someone fighting/flirting with Olga

Someone fighting with James

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But, but, but……..you’ve left out the ultimate, inevitable wrenching of the thread onto microtubules or the mathematical universe, by You Know Who.
 
(Q) said:
Hideous doesn't begin to describe those drums. Yeah, you can plainly hear the Gabriel influence.
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Funny thing about that drum sound is that it started off good--Steve Lillywhite and Hugh Padgham putzing around with gated reverb (and rack delay units) for Peter Gabriel's third album. Even John Lydon and Keith Levene used it extensively on Public Image Limited's Flowers of Romance. Then it just turned to shit, and everyone was using it everywhere--not just for effect, but for overall drum sound.

Same goes for the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 and 10 really. Insanely pricey gear like that is best used for crazy shit, as Levene does here in "Careering" (starts at 4:10), not for bland, syrupy pabulum. Also, note that Leven is basically just playing a bit from Yes' "Starship Trooper" in "Poptones". (In his youth, he had been a roady for the band.) Hilarious.
 
parmalee said:
Funny thing about that drum sound is that it started off good--Steve Lillywhite and Hugh Padgham putzing around with gated reverb (and rack delay units) for Peter Gabriel's third album. Even John Lydon and Keith Levene used it extensively on Public Image Limited's Flowers of Romance. Then it just turned to shit, and everyone was using it everywhere--not just for effect, but for overall drum sound.

Same goes for the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 and 10 really. Insanely pricey gear like that is best used for crazy shit, as Levene does here in "Careering" (starts at 4:10), not for bland, syrupy pabulum. Also, note that Leven is basically just playing a bit from Yes' "Starship Trooper" in "Poptones". (In his youth, he had been a roady for the band.) Hilarious.
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This guy is great, not listened to his music much but maybe one day I'll get into it.
 
Speaking of using the Prophet 5 mostly for crazy shit, the new caroline album features this gem with a magnificent moment starting roughly at 3:16. That's an attainable sound live, but it's not all that easily captured in recording. A part of me believes that such is only achievable through analog means, i.e., tape, but I suppose it could be got digitally--I just don't know how. "Ugly" is entirely subjective, but regardless, that's just not the sound one gets when exceeding limits with digital equipment; it has to be gotten via other means. How?
 
TheVat said:
First Rule of SFC Club:

All threads must be derailed by one of the following:

Off topic music chat

Someone fighting with Tiassa

Someone fighting/flirting with Olga

Someone fighting with James

Weird Chinaman obsessed with his bowel movements
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Ни фига у вас тут футбол! Мы, с Тиассой и Джеймсом - я так поняла, в защите. Китаец - в воротах. А кто в нападении?
 
The ball that is used to attack is a Pin Ball. It is deep purple in color and made from the skin of psychopathic street cats. The Chinese guy is a great goal keeper, except when he stands up and lets everything get through. Parmalee usually executes a flanking attack with lots of sarcasm. Sarkus is willing.

Sorry, mods and everyone who is trying to determine if sex is serious. Even I can't sustain this level of silliness much longer.
 
TheVat said:
First Rule of SFC Club:

All threads must be derailed by one of the following:

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Someone fighting with Tiassa

Someone fighting/flirting with Olga

Someone fighting with James

Weird Chinaman obsessed with his bowel movements
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Sex is like sport, doing it is pretty good if you're young and on form. Talking about it has a shelf like.

I'm guilty of all the rest with exception of arguing with James. Disagreed with him, not argued.
 
Вместо китайца в ворота можно ещё поставить Мартина - ему никто не докажет, что гол забили.
 
Pinball1970 said:
Sex is like sport, doing it is pretty good if you're young and on form. Talking about it has a shelf like.

I'm guilty of all the rest with exception of arguing with James. Disagreed with him, not argued.
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Pinball1970 said:
Olga......what have we said about playing nice?
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А что тут неприличного, Пин? Я так и представила Мартина, который кричит на судью:"Ты всё лжёшь, не было никакого гола! Наверняка, ты христианин!"
 
ольга said:
А что тут неприличного, Пин? Я так и представила Мартина, который кричит на судью:"Ты всё лжёшь, не было никакого гола! Наверняка, ты христианин!"
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There is currently a cease fire between you and Q, please keep the peace for a bit.
 
parmalee said:
Speaking of using the Prophet 5 mostly for crazy shit, the new caroline album features this gem with a magnificent moment starting roughly at 3:16. That's an attainable sound live, but it's not all that easily captured in recording. A part of me believes that such is only achievable through analog means, i.e., tape, but I suppose it could be got digitally--I just don't know how. "Ugly" is entirely subjective, but regardless, that's just not the sound one gets when exceeding limits with digital equipment; it has to be gotten via other means. How?
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That song melds brilliantly to the video I think.
 
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